How and When Not to Feed Your New Baby

Lately I have found that the best most frustrating part of being a parent is... the "in-laws". The boyfriend's mother who thinks you are doing everything wrong. Who can't tell you her opinion but waits until you are nowhere around then bombards your boyfriend with these things and those things and how you're just plain wrong.

Which brings me to this conclusion: how and when not to feed your new baby, because she said so!

#1: Do NOT Listen to Your Doctor's Advice
If you've asked your baby's doctor about when to start solids, and she says: "Around four months or so, you'll know she's ready when she can sit with support and when she can hold her head steady. You can try feeding her when you think she's ready and if she's not ready she'll just push the food out of her mouth with her tongue. If she's not ready when you try, wait a few days and try again." Don't buy it, because your mother-in-law will undoubtedly tell your significant other that the doctor is just incompetant.

Seriously, your mother-in-law probably had a baby at least 15 years ago, so she knows best. Who cares about all the new research? Who cares what your baby's doctor says? Truth be told, your mother-in-law is 100% correct 100% of the time, and you are not going to convince her otherwise!

#2: Do NOT Read Articles Online and Definately Don't Speak to Other Parents with a New Baby, too.
That's right, doctor's who write articles and post them online are definately just in it for the extra money. They do not know what they are talking about. When they say: "You don't have to start with rice cereal." that's just crazy talk.

When they say: "It doesn't matter if you start with fruits or vegetables, what matters is you're starting with stage 1, soupy food." That is such a crock. Don't they know your mother-in-law believes and knows, without a shadow of a doubt, that if you start with fruits first, your child will never in his life eat vegetables?

And if you speak to a friend who tells you six years ago, when she had her baby, due to constipation, she was forced to give her son (only two months old) watered-down apple juice... Well, let me tell you what! Your mother-in-law will start a mob with pitch forks and firing sticks and she will hunt your friend down!

#3: Lastly, if Your Mom-in-Law says it's OK to Start trying at 4 Months...
What she means is: 4 months to the exact day.

Not 3 months and 3 weeks.

Not 4 months and 2 days.

Four months, not an hour sooner or later, but exactly 4 months. If your child was born at 10pm on January 1st, you'd better wait until 10pm on May 1st to give that baby his single spoonful of rice cereal. No more, no less. No fruits, no vegetables. Got that?